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Displaying 39 Finding Aids
Title
- Syracuse Developmental Center Team B Self Governing Group subject and correspondence files
Series Number
- B2409
Summary
- This series documents "Team B," a self-advocacy group for the developmentally disabled. The records provide information on the team's activities and evidence of how the team functioned and governed itself. This series includes memoranda, correspondence, speeches, testimony to commissions and legislative committees, and monthly reports in the form of newsletters.
Creator
- Syracuse Developmental Center
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Pupil evaluation reports
Series Number
- B1666
Summary
- The series consists of registers that provide brief narrative evaluations of cognitive and skills development of pupils of the New York State Asylum for Idiots, later the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children. The remarks shed light on diagnostic techniques used to assess mental ability and learning progress (for example, sorting colored beads, walking a ladder, using an iron) as well as early techniques used in educating the developmentally disabled.
Creator
- Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Assorted estrayed institutional records
Series Number
- B1698
Summary
- This series contains an assortment of unrelated records that were apparently removed from institutional records for purposes of research or exhibit. Volumes include: an admissions book (July 1925-June 1926); a parole/elopement book (May-December 1917); a book of escapes (April 1953-August 1957); a clothing account check book (mostly blank) with receipts for the New York Asylum for Idiots (ca. 1862); and a hospital admission/discharge book (1928). It also contains an assortment of apparently unrelated material collected for historical or documentary significance.
Creator
- Syracuse Developmental Center
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in part in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities. Restricted records in accession B1698-00 are located in Box 2.
Title
- Patient census records
Series Number
- B2385
Summary
- This series contains registers which record the number of patients in the custody of the Rome State School and its predecessor, the Rome State Custodial Asylum. Information includes a daily count of males and females for each month and notes regarding patient admissions, discharges, deaths, physicians travelling, inspections, visits by board members, and other significant event information on the day each occurs.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Section 33.13, Mental Hygiene Law, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access permitted under certain conditions upon application to and approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Syracuse Developmental Center audiovisual history files
Series Number
- B1639
Summary
- These files include photographs, slides, audio and videotapes, brochures, and scrapbooks that depict operations at Syracuse Developmental Center and its predecessor, the Syracuse State School. Included are images of Special Olympics; celebrations and achievements of patients and employees; educational health programs produced by staff for the public; and promotional and fundraising materials. Efforts to improve services for the developmentally disabled at Syracuse Developmental Center are documented, as well.
Creator
- Syracuse Developmental Center
Access Restrictions
- Access is restricted in part in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
- Subseries 9, Motion Picture Films of SDC Events and Residents, is restricted due to fragility, pending reformatting.
Title
- Rome Developmental Center (N.Y.) ward reports and journals
Series Number
- B2381
Summary
- This series consists of reports of the ward service and patient environment (incidents or lack thereof) as reported by ward attendees during their shifts at the Rome Developmental Center and predecessor Rome State School. Earlier journals also include alphabetical indexes of patients on the ward for the period.
Creator
- Rome Developmental Center (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Section 33.13, Mental Hygiene Law, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access permitted under certain conditions upon application to and approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Record of deaths
Series Number
- B1662
Summary
- This series records deaths of residents at the New York State Asylum for Idiots (1851-1890), later known as the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children (1891-1895). Basic information includes number, name, age, sex, date admitted, and date of death. Following are more detailed narratives on "description of case" (physical characteristics, mental development), "history of case" (medical), "causes of death," and "post-mortem appearance." When no autopsy was performed, the latter category typically includes brief information on disposition of the body.
Creator
- Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Syracuse State School medical inspection reports
Series Number
- B1644
Summary
- This series consists of reports, checklists, and notes of visits to the Syracuse State School and its colony facilities, by Department of Mental Hygiene medical inspectors. Earliest reports show Inspector's arrival and departure dates and times; patient census; new admissions; accidents; educational work and building inspection results. Also included are department transmittal letters, and report receipts. Reports for 1949-1955 are missing. Records are partially restricted.
Creator
- Syracuse State School
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Syracuse State School hereditary analysis of applicants for admission
Series Number
- B1645
Summary
- This series consists of a heredity analysis of applicants to the Syracuse State School. Most entries include multigenerational data on mental conditions or predisposition to "feeble-mindedness" as well as remarks on individual or family medical history or living conditions. Entries include name, date, age, county and application status. Pre-1928 entries also include patient and parental nativity, health conditions of parents and other relatives and remarks. The volume, arranged chronologically by application date, includes county and name indexes. Records are restricted.
Creator
- Syracuse State School
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Daily camisole, restraint, and seclusion orders
Series Number
- B2370
Summary
- This series indicates daily number of orders given to seclude patients at the Rome State School, later the Rome Developmental Center (note: only male patients are secluded) or to place them in either a camisole (straight-jacket) or restraint sheet. Numbers are given by gender. One sheet is used per month, and statistics are totaled at the base of each column at month's end. The series was created for statistical purposes only; no identifying information for restrained patients is given.
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Syracuse State School postcard collection
Series Number
- B1693
Summary
- The series consists of approximately 120 picture post cards, most of which were sent by employees or students of the Syracuse State School to staff members. All cards are stamped and cancelled. The color pictures typically show cities and landscapes primarily, but not exclusively, within New York State. Some appear to be reports from former students or their families. Fewer post cards were used for "business" messages.
Creator
- Syracuse State School
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Syracuse Developmental Center exhibit materials
Series Number
- B1692
Summary
- These materials depict children and staff in various therapeutic, educational, and recreational settings, classrooms, buildings, and grounds of the Syracuse State School. Also include are a history of the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children, a portrait of Dr. Hervey Wilbur, and records of the observance of the 125th of the opening of the Syracuse Developmental Center.
Creator
- Syracuse Developmental Center
Access Restrictions
- Records depicting students are restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
- Records are also restricted due to fragility, pending treatment. Use with supervision of archivist.
Title
- Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities patient admission lists
Series Number
- 20147
Summary
- Prior to 1978, the Department of Mental Hygiene was responsible for services to the mentally disabled and mentally ill, and for treatment oversight. It received patient admission lists from public and private treatment facilities throughout the state. This series consists of admission lists from those institutions under jurisdiction of OMRDD (1978-1983) as well as those Department of Mental Hygiene facilities that were of a type that would have come under OMRDD jurisdiction had it existed during that time period (1927-1978).
Creator
- New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Access Restrictions
- Restricted by Mental Hygiene Law Sect. 33.13. Access may be permitted in certain circumstances upon application to and approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Indexes
Series Number
- B1685
Summary
- This series consists of an assortment of books from the Syracuse State School and its predecessors indexing parts of various unspecified institutional records. The correlation of the indexes to the ledgers, journals, registers, or other volumes they index is unknown; only two of the volumes have titles that indicate the purpose of the index. These volumes index students, clothing allotments, and attendance.
Creator
- Syracuse State School
Access Restrictions
- Volumes 1-3: Restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children private pay accounts
Series Number
- B1684
Summary
- This series consists of account books of receipts and disbursements by New York State Asylum and the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children for board and clothing expenses for private pay students. Volume 1 shows cash received on account for "paying pupils." Entries include date; name; number; amount; monthly totals and cash received from fruit, livestock, scrap metal, and used items sold. Volume 2, which shows amounts received and disbursed for board and clothing expenses of students, is arranged by student name. Records are restricted.
Creator
- Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Patient index cards
Series Number
- B2372
Summary
- These cards provide summary patient information. The front of the card includes patient's name, case number, county of origin, address if known, patient number, date of admission, and emergency contact. The reverse of the card gives visitor and/or transfer information and other notes regarding patient such as behavioral tendencies, marital status, previous attacks, etc. The cards also serve as an index and cross reference to patient case files. Cards for male patients beginning A-Fis are missing.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Mental Hygiene
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Section 33.13, Mental Hygiene Law, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access permitted under certain conditions upon application to and approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Syracuse State School admission, discharge, death, and transfer records,
Series Number
- B1647
Summary
- This series documents admissions; discharges and transfers of the New York State Asylum for Idiots; the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children; the Syracuse State School for Mental Defectives and the Syracuse State School. Information is also present in some volumes for death, parole, and escape (elopement). Of note in the early descriptive and admission volumes are the family history data and physiognomic and phrenological data. A few applicant photographs accompany the earliest descriptions. Records are restricted.
Creator
- Syracuse State School
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Syracuse State School surgeon's daybook
Series Number
- B1646
Summary
- This series consists of a Syracuse State School's record of patient surgeries. Typical procedures include appendectomy, suturing, tonsillectomy. Entries include type of operation; date; patient name; surgeon; surgical assistant; anesthetist (sometimes), and nurse. Early listings note patient's sex; religion; type of anesthetic and time of the operation. For more complex cases, specific procedures are noted, along with surgical findings. Records are restricted.
Creator
- Syracuse State School
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities case files of former Willowbrook consumers
Series Number
- 21101
Summary
- This series documents the admission, treatment, therapy, education, and progress of Willowbrook School consumers before and after their transfer to the Sunmount Developmental Disabilities Service Office in Tupper Lake. Records typically include admission sheets, admission/transfer records, psychological reports, school reports, results of physical examinations, social service notes, prescription and medication records, dental and weight charts, clothing lists, and correspondence from other institutions. Records are restricted.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.